Forgetting to weave in the story elements and symbolism. Definition: If you want to use a metaphor, like a world event or a family trait or tradition to show a contrast in the hero or heroine’s life, you must layer it in. If the heroine’s life if falling a part, coming down around her like 9-11, don’t tell the reader, “her life was just like the twin towers…coming down around her.” Weave it. The scene opens. It’s 9-11, the heroine is preparing breakfast. She calls her husband down to breakfast but he doesn’t show up. When she goes to see what’s taking him so long, she finds him collapsed on the bathroom floor, dead. As she’s calling 911, her best friend buzzes in. The twin towers […]
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But I’m not a hero, am I? Helping your hero discover his heroic side!
A great story has a great hero – someone who discovers they are hero along that way. Acts of Heroism are those character-change actions that take your character from an everyday Joe to a Hero. It’s not the grand gestures, the great sacrifices…Acts of Heroism are the everyday acts of our character that push him beyond himself. Ideally in a story, every choice your character makes and every step beyond his comfort zone that he or she takes, is going to push your character farther and farther from the person he starts as, until finally he becomes a full- fledged hero. Let’s go back to two of my favorite movies – Eagle Eye and Cellular Eagle Eye is the story of an everyday guy faced with the accusation that he’s […]
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